{"id":2955,"date":"2022-09-14T11:31:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T10:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio400.com\/?post_type=phernalia&p=2955"},"modified":"2022-09-14T17:00:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T16:00:37","slug":"the-brotherton-collection","status":"publish","type":"phernalia","link":"https:\/\/folio400.com\/phernalia\/the-brotherton-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Just you wait, Henry Huntington-just you wait!\u2019-The Brotherton Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In February 1922 the chemical industrialist Lord Brotherton of Wakefield bought his first rare book following an unsuccessful attempt to purchase a medieval manuscript at a London auction.<\/p>
The mid-fifteenth-century manuscript of the Wakefield Mystery Plays, also known as the Towneley Cycle, was offered for sale at Sotheby\u2019s in London.\u00a0\u00a0Despite intense negotiations with Mr Gilson, Keeper of the Manuscripts at the British Museum and Mr Dring of Quaritch the booksellers (who bidded on his behalf) he eventually lost out to \u201cThe Terror of the Auction Room\u201d, the dealer A.S.W. Rosenbach, acting on behalf of the Californian millionaire railroad magnate Mr Henry E. Huntington.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t